Frozen boundaries and log-fronts

  • Date: 10/16/2006
Lecturer(s):

Andrei Okounkov (Princeton University)

Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

In this talk, based on a joint work with Richard Kenyon and Grisha
Mikhalkin, Andrei Okounkov will discuss some simple binary operation on
plane curves which 1) generalizes classical duality for plane curves,
2) arises naturally in probabilistic context, namely as a facet
boundary in certain random surface models.

Other Information: 

10th Anniversary Speaker Series 2006

Sponsor: 

pims